Common Pumping Member Controls Inlet Or Discharge For Plural Chambers Patents (Class 417/491)
  • Patent number: 9074589
    Abstract: A pump that has a flangeless valve plate, meaning that the valve plate has no flange through which bolts that secure the head to the pump extend. The pump has eccentrics and pistons that all have holes in them so that the pistons at opposite ends of the pump can be assembled to the shaft of the motor 180° out of phase. The pump further has a monolithic head that includes the two head members of the pump and the tube that connects them also has an integrally formed port. The pump is supported by elastomeric tubular members from its ports. The pump has a push-in fitting that can be pushed into a hole in a member such as the head, the housing or the base so that once pushed in, a ring around the fitting expands outwardly behind an edge of the body to trap the fitting in the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: THOMAS INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shawn A. Leu, Stephen M. Moretti
  • Publication number: 20130336827
    Abstract: An open end of a cylinder main body is blocked by a cap, which includes a main body portion, and an outer edge portion that bends from the main body portion toward the open end of the cylinder main body, a distal end of the outer edge portion being locked with an inner circumferential wall. When a piston comes into abutment against the main body portion, a space is formed by the outer edge portion, the inner circumferential wall, and the end surface of the piston. A first port is disposed so as to communicate with the space, whereby the space serves as a space into which the pressure fluid is introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SMC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro ISHIBASHI, Koji HARA, Toshio SATO
  • Patent number: 8454331
    Abstract: A plate pump assembly for pumping various fluids including heavy crude. The plate pump assembly includes first and second chambers each having lower and upper valves. Primary upper and lower eccentric cams within the plate pump assembly are connected to an upper plate and a lower plate. A secondary eccentric cam is connected to a piston that separates the first and second chambers. A drive shaft of the assembly rotates the primary upper and lower eccentric cams to actuate the upper and lower plates alternately concealing and revealing the lower and upper valves for the first and second chambers. The drive shaft further rotates the secondary eccentric cam to actuate the piston alternately decreasing and increasing an area of the first and second chambers to receive fluids through the lower valves and compress the area within the first and second chambers to push the fluids through the upper valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Inventor: Michael Brent Ford
  • Patent number: 8353689
    Abstract: A vibratory cavitation pump is provided that includes a working cylinder having an fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a rod extending into the cylinder, a piston fixed to the rod, a plate fixed to the rod and spaced from the piston, an activator slidably mounted to the rod between the piston and the plate and an oscillating pumping mechanism operably connected to the rod to move the rod with respect to the working cylinder. The sliding activator creates cavitation in the fluid being pumped to increase the ease of pumping the fluid, such as high viscosity fluids. The pump can also include an external cylinder disposed around the working cylinder to impart rotational motion to the incoming fluid, thereby enhancing the cavitation created in the fluid by the pump, rendering the fluid easy to displace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Inventors: Grigori Lishanski, Oleg Lishanski
  • Publication number: 20110052417
    Abstract: Production liquid from a well is pumped to the surface by a hydraulically driven reciprocating piston pump. The pump is driven in a drive stroke by a flow of hydraulic fluid supplied through a single tubing line applied to a drive side of a drive piston and in a return stroke by the weight of the production liquid heavier than the hydraulic fluid applied to the return side of the drive piston. The production liquid is pumped though the well casing. A control valve causes application of pressure in the hydraulic fluid for the drive stroke and release for the return stroke. The pump body includes a first duct communicating between the tubing and the bottom drive side of the drive piston and a second duct communicating between the well casing and the top drive return of the drive piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventor: Robert Michael Wells
  • Publication number: 20090116986
    Abstract: A vibratory pumping machine including a pumping chamber disposed within a housing for the machine having an inlet tube that is insertable into a container having a liquid therein to withdraw the liquid from the container upon actuation of the pumping mechanism also located within the housing. The chamber includes an oscillating rod that engages a resilient outlet member to form a vacuum within the chamber which draws the liquid upwardly through the tube into the chamber for dispensing through the outlet member. A mechanism including the pumping chamber can be utilized to withdraw liquids from within container of various shapes and sizes, as well as to introduce other fluids, such as gases, into containers containing such liquids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Grigori Lishanski, Oleg Lishanski
  • Patent number: 7384249
    Abstract: A fluid metering system includes a housing having a piston chamber with first and second spaced ends, at least one housing inlet passage, and at least one housing outlet passage. The housing inlet and housing passages communicate with the piston chamber. A piston is disposed in the piston chamber for reciprocal movement between the first and second ends of the piston chamber to alternatingly define first and second volumes therein. At least one first slot, and at least one second slot are formed on the outer surface of the piston, and extend from respective ends of the piston toward the respectively opposite ends. The first slot has an opening that is in communication with the first volume, and the second slot has an opening in communication with the second volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventor: Mario Romanin
  • Publication number: 20080118381
    Abstract: A variable displacement vane pump includes a first body, a second body, an adapter ring, a cam ring, and a rotor. The first body includes a cylinder portion, and a base portion covering a first longitudinal end of an inner space of the cylinder portion. The second body covers a second longitudinal end of the inner space of the first body. The adapter ring has an outer radial periphery fitted and fixed to an inner radial periphery of the cylinder portion of the first body. The cam ring is mounted inside the adapter ring and supported by the adapter ring for lateral motion in contact with the contact area of the adapter ring. The rotor is mounted inside the cam ring. The adapter ring has a radial thickness that gradually increases when followed longitudinally of the adapter ring from the base portion of the first body toward the second body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Shigeaki Yamamuro, Tadahiko Nogami
  • Patent number: 7354255
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved vibratory pumping mechanism that increases the efficiency of utilization of the vibratory motion within a mechanism. More specifically, the mechanism includes a central chamber within which a piston is oscillated to draw fluid into the chamber and expel fluid from within the chamber outwardly through a nozzle connected to the chamber. The chamber includes a pressure tube connected to a rearward end of the chamber and to a secondary chamber positioned around and in fluid communication with the chamber. The pressure tube allows the negative pressure generated by the motion of the piston in either direction to be utilized in preventing any fluid from being directed out of the mechanism in a direction other than through the nozzle, thereby increasing the efficiency of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Inventors: Grigori Lishanski, Oleg Lishanski
  • Patent number: 6604920
    Abstract: A vibratory pump includes an oscillator that is connected to a plunger mounted within a housing submerged beneath the surface of a fluid to be displaced. The oscillations of the plunger selectively communicate an outlet for the pump with inlet openings on the housing. The selective communication creates a slight vacuum in the pump that enables the fluid to be moved by the pump without generating any significant back pressure in the outlet fluid flow from the pump. The pump can also be configured to operate in a dual stroke mode where an outward flow of fluid from the pump is generated during both the downward and return strokes of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Inventors: Grigori Lishanski, Oleg Lishanski
  • Patent number: 6575078
    Abstract: A fluid motor includes a plurality of fluid actuated pistons 13 extending radially outwards from a stator and each having a cam follower bearing 14 at its outer end. A rotor surrounds the stator and includes an inwardly facing drive cam profile engaged by the cam follower bearings 14 to advance the rotor relative to the stator. The drive cam profile 8 is substantially sinusoidal as a result of which substantially constant torque is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Motorvation International Limited
    Inventors: Lyndon J. Wright, Micheal Hibbert
  • Patent number: 6511306
    Abstract: A Positive Fluid Displacement Device (PFDD) with single piece double-ended pistons connected to a crankpin for circular motion. Pistons are nested together to maintain all pistons in the same plane perpendicular to the axis of the crankshaft. Cylinders are driven in a reciprocating fashion by the pistons and are held loosely in a cylinder carriage along its axis with radial sealing engagement therebetween. Pliable members mount port plates within a housing such that there is no direct contact therebetween or with a two-layer manifold. A flat surface of the port plate is urged against the cylinder head by a pliable member which exerts a force on the center of the port plate. Grooves in the first layer of the manifold are sealed by the second layer to form fluid passageways. The cylinder head is guided in housing grooves with a pliable member. A sealing lip is integral with a piston head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Encynova International, Inc.
    Inventor: Michel A. Pierrat
  • Publication number: 20020081223
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a fluid suction and discharge apparatus capable of continuously discharging fluid with a predetermined flow rate and pressure continuously sucking the fluid without substantially giving rise to pulsation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventor: Kazumasa Ikuta
  • Patent number: 6099273
    Abstract: Pressurized fluid motor comprising a casing, a cylinder block, a cam, an internal fluid distributor and a selector. The bore of the selector has four grooves. Two of them are communication grooves each connected to a main (feed or exhaust) power duct and to a connection duct, the connection ducts being themselves connected to different groups of distribution ducts. The other two grooves of the bore are branch grooves respectively connected to an additional (feed or exhaust) power duct and to a third connection duct. The slide of the selector comprises at least a first selection groove which is adapted to establish communication between the two branch grooves. By modifying only the shape of the slide, and possibly that of the bore of the additional duct, the selector can provide different functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Poclain Hydraulics Industrie
    Inventors: Bernard Allart, Jean-Claude Cousin, Eric Blondeau
  • Patent number: 6071096
    Abstract: A pneumatic cylinder for actuating fume extraction valves in fume and heat extraction plants has a piston (2) that may be actuated from both sides with at least one working surface and that can be made to slide by pressurised air in a cylinder (1) with at least one working chamber (4), as well as an energy accumulator with regulating means. The regulating means can be controlled by control means to open or keep open the fume extraction valves. In order to obtain a compact pneumatic cylinder for a fume and heat extraction plant which is easy to install, a storage chamber in which air or pressurised air is stored as compressible pressure medium is provided as energy accumulator. The storage chamber is in communication with a compression surface (7) of the piston (2), at its side opposite to the working surface (7), so that pressure medium may flow between the storage chamber and the compression surface (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Inventor: Andreas Grasl
  • Patent number: 5482443
    Abstract: A multistage vacuum pump is achieved by utilizing a single piston and cylinder assembly having opposite end portions with substantially equal diameters and an enlarged diameter central portion. One end of the cylinder is closed by a valve and a first stage pumping chamber is defined between the valve and the piston. The enlarged diameter portion of the piston has an axial extent less than the axial extent of the enlarged diameter portion of the cylinder to define second and third stage pumping chambers on opposite sides of the enlarged diameter portion of the piston. The three pumping chambers are interconnected by passage means to an inlet and outlet to provide a sequential reduction in pressure. A single drive unit may be connected to a plurality of pumping units for reciprocating the piston in each pumping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Fuji Seiki Inc.
    Inventor: Eckhard Bez
  • Patent number: 5316454
    Abstract: An inexpensive, efficient pump which can supply lubricating oil uses the revolving motion of an orbiting scroll 2. The pump is so constructed that a piston supported by a fixing member 1 is fitted in a cylinder chamber 102 formed in the inner surface of the end plate 21 of an orbiting scroll 2 which revolves while sliding on the fixing member, by which a pump chamber 104 is defined between them. The piston 101 is extended or retracted depending on the revolving motion of orbiting scroll 2, the volume of the pump chamber 104 is increased or decreased, and a fluid suction port 105 and a fluid discharge port 106 are connected to the pump chamber 104 at predetermined time intervals to supply the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Fujitani, Yukio Nagato, Kimiharu Takeda, Katsumi Hirooka, Tetsuzo Ukai, Toshiyuki Shikanai
  • Patent number: 4518069
    Abstract: An adjustable hydraulic speed drive for controllably maintaining output torque and variable output speed is disclosed. The drive utilizes a rotating group of pistons in radially arranged bores in a portion of an input shaft. A supply of controlled fluid is provided to the bores by way of passageways in an output shaft communicating with said bores. A portion of the output shaft supports a cam ring in spaced relation to said bores and roller ends on said pistons engage said cam ring by centrifugal force upon rotation of the input shaft so that the pistons move responsive to the cam ring contours, said impart movement to the cam ring and output shaft by controlling the pressure level and/or flow rate of the fluid exiting from said bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Inventor: Charles R. Elias
  • Patent number: 4314797
    Abstract: A metering fluid pump including a cylinder and a pumping piston movable therein, the cylinder being configured to define a liquid inlet chamber on one side of the piston and a liquid outlet chamber on the opposite side of the piston. A suction valve for the inlet chamber and a pressure valve for the outlet chamber open simultaneously when the piston is moving in a first direction to simultaneously pump liquid out of the outlet chamber and draw liquid into the inlet chamber. Both valves close when the piston is moved in a second reversed direction to transfer the liquid through a constricted conduit from the inlet chamber into the outlet chamber. In a second aspect of the invention an accumulator may be provided which receives liquid under pressure from the inlet chamber and which transfers the liquid into the outlet chamber when the piston is moved in the second direction and is at the end of its transfer stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1982
    Assignee: J. Eberspacher
    Inventor: Reinhard Gerwin
  • Patent number: 4043711
    Abstract: A lubricating oil pump comprising a first plunger having the stroke controllable by a first control cam means, and a second plunger connected integrally rotatably only in the rotating direction with the first plunger in order to form a pump chamber and having the stroke controllable by a second control cam means so that the delivery may be determined by taking two kinds of external conditions into consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadashi Seino
  • Patent number: RE28880
    Abstract: The feed mechanism for a printing machine in which printing ink is fed into the recessed design of an intaglio printing plate includes a cylinder open at its upper end and communicating at its bottom with the recessed designs. A piston is housed in the cylinder, the lower end of which piston forms a chamber at the bottom of the cylinder. The piston rod extends above the cylinder and carries a support member at its upper end, the support member carrying a head. A second cylinder rests upon the top of the first cylinder and receives the head which is slidable therein within limits. A spring is interposed between the head and the bottom of the second cylinder. The piston and piston rod have a bore forming a second chamber provided at its upper end with an ink supply inlet. A hollow relief piston is slidable in the lower end of the bore communicating with the second chamber and communicating through inlet openings with the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1971
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Assignee: Colorflo Limited
    Inventor: Harold Frederick Farrow